photos by Anna Siegel
photos by Anna Siegel
No Signal
Presented at "Spring Grad Event"on May 4th, 2023
Scott Gym Studio Theater at Smith College
Choreography + Performance: Madelyn Sher
Sound: “there’s no karma in 5d”, “distractions for geovias tobias”, “i picked up a frog (and it peed on me)” by Anna Wise + Jon Bap, “Let it Happen” by Jon Bap
Poem: Collected words from John Cage, Andrea Olsen, and Yokio Mishima
Costuming: Madelyn Sher
The development of this piece coincided with my reading of David Abram's text, The Spell of the Sensuous. As I dove deeper into the concept of phenomenology, I imagined my life without thought in the shape of words. How would this affect my perception of the life-world around me? I tried "no words" on as a movement score and this sparked the gestural language of the piece. Created during my first year of graduate school.